From Reactants to Products, and Vice Versa A Song about Chemical Equilibrium
by Safiyyah Gordon http://www.box.net/shared/uy55uxxs3p Hey my names Reactants I’d like to tell you a story about Me and my friend, Products Oh uh-oh uh-oh oh We were at a state Of equilibrium Oh uh-oh uh-oh oh A dynamic condition Reaction appears to have to stopped But It has not The forward reaction From me to you Was equal to the reverse From you to me Oh uh-oh uh-oh oh We were at a state Of equilibrium Oh uh-oh uh-oh oh We had K sub eq It’s the rate from you to me Over the rate from me to you An equilibrium constant If I were a liquid And you were a gas We would have A phase equilibrium Oh uh-oh uh-oh oh We were at a state Of equilibrium Oh uh-oh uh-oh oh If I were a solute And you were my ions We would have K sub sp A solubility constant If I were acid And you were my ions We would have K sub a An acid ionization constant Oh uh-oh uh-oh oh We were at a state Of equilibrium Oh uh-oh uh-oh oh But things went wrong… Le Chatelier’s Principle explains it all Stresses affected us Even disturbed us Adjusted our equilibrium Oh uh-oh uh-oh oh But things went wrong… Your concentration changed Increases favoured you Decreases favoured me Oh no an equilibrium shift Oh uh-oh uh-oh oh But things went wrong… Temperature Changed Increases favoured the endothermic Decreases favour the exothermic Oh no an equilibrium shift Oh uh-oh uh-oh oh But things went wrong… Pressure Changed when we were gases Increases favoured the pressure-downers Decreases favoured the pressure-uppers Oh no an equilibrium shift But things went wrong… Adding Catalysts And Inert Gases They had no effect No equilibrium shift Oh uh-oh uh-oh oh We were at a state Of equilibrium Oh uh-oh uh-oh oh Oh Man, driving forces Ethalpy And Entropy And Gibbs free-energy Establishing our equilibrium When Delta G equals 0 We knew we were at a state Of equilibrium Oh Uh-oh Oh
A Song about Chemical Equilibrium
by Safiyyah Gordon
http://www.box.net/shared/uy55uxxs3p
Hey my names Reactants
I’d like to tell you a story about
Me and my friend, Products
Oh uh-oh uh-oh oh
We were at a state
Of equilibrium
Oh uh-oh uh-oh oh
A dynamic condition
Reaction appears to have to stopped
But
It has not
The forward reaction
From me to you
Was equal to the reverse
From you to me
Oh uh-oh uh-oh oh
We were at a state
Of equilibrium
Oh uh-oh uh-oh oh
We had K sub eq
It’s the rate from you to me
Over the rate from me to you
An equilibrium constant
If I were a liquid
And you were a gas
We would have
A phase equilibrium
Oh uh-oh uh-oh oh
We were at a state
Of equilibrium
Oh uh-oh uh-oh oh
If I were a solute
And you were my ions
We would have K sub sp
A solubility constant
If I were acid
And you were my ions
We would have K sub a
An acid ionization constant
Oh uh-oh uh-oh oh
We were at a state
Of equilibrium
Oh uh-oh uh-oh oh
But things went wrong…
Le Chatelier’s Principle explains it all
Stresses affected us
Even disturbed us
Adjusted our equilibrium
Oh uh-oh uh-oh oh
But things went wrong…
Your concentration changed
Increases favoured you
Decreases favoured me
Oh no an equilibrium shift
Oh uh-oh uh-oh oh
But things went wrong…
Temperature Changed
Increases favoured the endothermic
Decreases favour the exothermic
Oh no an equilibrium shift
Oh uh-oh uh-oh oh
But things went wrong…
Pressure Changed when we were gases
Increases favoured the pressure-downers
Decreases favoured the pressure-uppers
Oh no an equilibrium shift
But things went wrong…
Adding Catalysts
And Inert Gases
They had no effect
No equilibrium shift
Oh uh-oh uh-oh oh
We were at a state
Of equilibrium
Oh uh-oh uh-oh oh
Oh Man, driving forces
Ethalpy
And Entropy
And Gibbs free-energy
Establishing our equilibrium
When Delta G equals 0
We knew we were at a state
Of equilibrium
Oh
Uh-oh
Oh